The culture of Song Dynasty flourished and the printing industry developed greatly. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, similar printing fonts began to appear in printing workshops in Lin 'an and other places, and later people called them imitation song style.
Italics:
Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical.
Bold:
Bold characters, also known as square or gothic characters, have no serif decoration, straight fonts, horizontal strokes and vertical strokes, and all the handwriting is the same thickness.
Official script:
Developed from seal script, the font is wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and the vertical painting is short, and the "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns" are emphasized.
Extended data:
Before the Song Dynasty appeared, the printed fonts were all regular script. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the regular script fonts in the Neifu engraving were also introduced into the Korean peninsula and became the official fonts for casting metal movable type.
Later, during Hongzhi's reign, there began to appear Song typefaces in Suzhou, and during Zheng De's reign, it developed to Changzhou and Songjiang near Suzhou. They were originally formed in Jiajing period and distributed in most parts of the country.
It is not difficult for a willing heart to find that the song style is "horizontal and thin, vertical and thick" According to the existing woodcut forms of ancient books in China, Zhenghong Chen speculated that this was related to the direction in which woodcuts were cut from the trunk: "Ancient woodcuts are generally cut along the longitudinal direction of the trunk, that is, the horizontal strokes of the characters are in the same direction as the woodcut fibers, so they are not easy to be cut off. However, the vertical drawing of figures is at right angles to the wood fiber of the engraving, which is relatively easy to be cut off, so the font carved in Wanli is' horizontal fine vertical thick'.
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